Code #1

Observations

It has the right passcode format, go through the usual set of tools (atbash, rot, morse…) to try to find the answer.

[hint]If your a gamer you’ll see were you need to Link[/hint]

Spoiler

That one was not obvious. ROT and Morse didn’t give any hint of a keyword sub. The only thing that makes it look a bit better is Atbash.

8yjz3nonagf8y6k

Nonag doesn’t really mean anything but reversed it gives Ganon. Any of you played The legend of Zelda right to the end ? Ganon is the final boss you needed to defeat with Link.

8yjz3linkf8y6k

That one was not obvious. ROT and Morse didn’t give any hint of a keyword sub. The only thing that makes it look a bit better is Atbash.

8yjz3nonagf8y6k

Nonag doesn’t really mean anything but reversed it gives Ganon. Any of you played The legend of Zelda right to the end ? Ganon is the final boss you needed to defeat with Link.

8yjz3linkf8y6k

Code #2

Observations

Again, go through your normal routine of atbash, rot, morse… to see what you can get.

Spoiler

Well no easy way to explain that one, it comes with experience and gut feeling. It’s all letters so most probable that the numbers are to be in the written form. First thing is try to see if you have repeated letter sequence.

ohodwxfsxnysxndsiqfdc

Next step would be to see how you can convert SXN to a number and also OHO since they are the first letters of the code that needs to start with a number.

Atbash doesn’t give anything. Let’s try ROT. ROT +1 on SXN is interesting. It give TYO, really close to TWO. To get the X to convert to W it would need to be ROT -1. What if we alternate ROT -1 & ROT +1

ohodwxfsxnysxndsiqfdc-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-ninevyetwoxtwocthreeb

We now have

9vye2x2c3b

No keyword and no hints. Maybe the method is the hint, seeing those -1 +1 on graph would be a wave right ?

9vye2wavex2c3b

Well no easy way to explain that one, it comes with experience and gut feeling. It’s all letters so most probable that the numbers are to be in the written form. First thing is try to see if you have repeated letter sequence.

ohodwxfsxnysxndsiqfdc

Next step would be to see how you can convert SXN to a number and also OHO since they are the first letters of the code that needs to start with a number.

Atbash doesn’t give anything. Let’s try ROT. ROT +1 on SXN is interesting. It give TYO, really close to TWO. To get the X to convert to W it would need to be ROT -1. What if we alternate ROT -1 & ROT +1

ohodwxfsxnysxndsiqfdc-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-ninevyetwoxtwocthreeb

We now have

9vye2x2c3b

No keyword and no hints. Maybe the method is the hint, seeing those -1 +1 on graph would be a wave right ?

9vye2wavex2c3b

Code #3

Observations

Nothing special to notice. High level letters could mean binary RLE, again, go through your normal routine for all letter code.

[hint]This one uses 2 ciphers, you’ll need to feel your way through all the bumps[/hint]

Spoiler

First instinct was to think binary RLE by converting the letters to numbers but the sum of the numbers wasn’t divisible by 8. Let try morse:

The sum of characters is 114. Divided by 6 is gives 19 which is a good length for a passcode. Let’s see how we can convert that to braille. One way I find that is quick and easy is to remove all the space and make a 3 by X rectangle. In this case it’s 3 by 38.

The sum of characters is 114. Divided by 6 is gives 19 which is a good length for a passcode. Let’s see how we can convert that to braille. One way I find that is quick and easy is to remove all the space and make a 3 by X rectangle. In this case it’s 3 by 38.